Early Saints Remembered

 The next child of Robert Hindley to be investigated is James. However, there are many men by this name in the greater Manchester area, and it is challenging to determine which is our James.  Lois is also complicated to follow (see notes from the first post about Robert Hindley ... since Lois' mother died when she was a baby, she seems to have been raised by another family as evidenced in the two censuses she is found in). As for William, a nice headstone image on Findagrave identifies him with his parents and wife Mary Emma. William and Mary Emma are identifiable after their 1898 marriage on the 1901 and 1911 censuses in FamilySearch sources.  The 1911 census confirms that William (Jr.) is their ONLY child.  His marriage to Bessie Shaw is documented in the Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project: Bessie has now been added to FamilySearch's Tree.  No further research has been done to know whether they had posterity. *William & Bessie add 2 more people to Rob...

From the original post about his father Robert, we established that Joseph had been listed on the membership records of the Leigh Branch as a child, but eventually had the words "cut off" written on his line.  He was born in 1841 in Leigh, married Rachael Taylor 5 Jan 1868 in Manchester, and had two known children, Robert (1868) and Sarah Ann (1871).  A search was made in the GRO birth and death indexes, and one additional possible  child (unproven) is Ann, born and died 1st quarter of 1868 in the Manchester district with a mother whose maiden name was Taylor.  FamilySearch has burial records for Failsworth but they are not available online, so they would need to be searched in the library in order to assess whether there is proof of this Ann being Joseph and Rachael's child. Robert FamilySearch Tree included detail about Robert's wife Emma Elizabeth Crossley and their children, Elsie (1895), Robert (1898), Wilfred (1900), and Gladys (1902), all of whom are available...